No economy can grow in isolation and in that respect trade plays a very important role. However, before getting into any trade agreement you need to do a proper cost-benefit [...]
Kanchi Tamang from a village near Pokhara, the second largest city in Nepal, has been working in Saudi Arabia for the past three years. Her two children aged eight and [...]
“Being a man or a woman is a matter of birth. Being a man or a woman who makes a difference is a matter of choice” Chhavi Rajawat, the young [...]
At a recent dinner I bumped into two second generation Indians who had recently moved to India from Britain and the US. Ravi had managed to jump the hurdles and [...]
A recent stay at one of the famous private health care centres in New Delhi where a friend of mine was hospitalized, left me thinking seriously about the shortcomings of the [...]
I was slightly flustered when returning from Kathmandu to New Delhi this November, I was questioned by Nepal Police at Tribhuvan International Airport for carrying my Nepali passport just to travel [...]
The last day of the Forum on 1 November (here is a blogpost about the first day and here is a post that covers the second day) started with an [...]
The second day of the Forum on 31 October got off to an early start with a brief introduction to the Asia Programme launched this year by the Bertelsmann Stiftung. Europe [...]
“One can be a senior leader at a very young age and a young leader at an advanced age.…so age is not a determining factor for participating in such a [...]
I can well imagine the slack jawed expressions on some our front benchers’ beatific faces on seeing political cartoonist Aseem Trivedi’s cartoons on the net. Personnally I didn’t think they [...]
